Welding Floor Pans Mini

I am looking forward to removing all the past bodges and welding in clean metal to clean metal with a good dollop of rust proofing in the form of kurust and a zinc based primer.

Welding floor pans mini.

Os boot floor and battery box. If it s a whole floor it should be plug welded to replicate the original spot welds. I over lapped my floor pans and trunk floor about 1 1 2 inches and welded them in from both top and bottom. I have nearly removed all of the old floor and need to decide what is the best technique for welding the new floor to the existing tunnel.

Then use urethane seam sealer to seam up the weld area front and back after it has been epoxy primed. Fabrication of a friends car in calgary. Rustys rod gun aug 22 2010. If it s repair panels butt welds are better in terms of rust prevention.

In this episode i finally get that driver side floor pan welded in i was glad to get this done i spread this video over a few days but i am chuffed. The only reason i can see to glue in floor pans is not knowing how to weld. Rather than patch i decided to install new floor pans. From santa cruz ca.

In this video. This has been patched many times in the past. Metal was 16 ga. Lots of work but i wanted that extra thickness at the perimeter.

In the area between. This gives you a double seam of weld around the patch with the overlap on the inside hidden under the carpet whilst from below the repair will be near invisible especially if it gets a textured finish like stonechip. Also weld inside the car around the edge of the repair panel. This is a 1980 classic mini clubman saloon.

There seems to be several options. Sep 4 2002 posts. The mini forum mini technical. Weld from below filling in the joggled edge and if you want it to look invisible grind the weld back flush.

When i get home tonight i will start removing the off side boot floor pan. Just about every minis floor pans will most likely suffer rot. Used weld thru primer on overlap. Classic mini floor pans.

The floor panel is around 1 1mm thicker than other body panels on a mini so you should be able to butt weld if your fit up is okay. Then ground down both welds top and bottom with a die grinder. When the replacement panels have a spot weld flange i punch 1 4 holes in the panel and plug weld the panels if i ve got more flange i ll use 3 8 holes. I then decided to leave this on on the passenger side as welding the new panel in on the drivers side was a bit of a mare and i wish i hadn t cut it out.

I spent a little while preparing my floor pan to fit correctly but it isn t too bad really.